Hicks Boiler Works, 2000 | State Archives Catalog

The records consist of one copy of the historic resources archive documentation (text and photos on archival quality materials) for the Hicks Boiler Works building prepared by the PAL project team for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation.

The Hicks Boiler Works is historically significant as a building that was continuously used by one family-run business for the manufacturing of marine and stationary boilers from 1870 to circa 1919. Built in 1870, the building was predated by several wooden sheds also owned by Hicks Boiler Works on the site. Metal fabrication work continued in the building until the 1970s. The building is also significant as one of the few remaining examples of a boiler works building in the City of Providence. Once found in numbers throughout the city and state, few of these building types survive to the present day. Additionally, the building is architecturally significant as the last remaining intact example of light industrial design from the once thriving maritime, industrial, warehouse period of India Fox Point during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Author: Virginia H. Adams, Mary Kate Harrington, Matthew Kierstead, Elaine Robinson, PAL, Pawtucket, RI

Scope and Contents: The records consist of one copy of the historic resources archive documentation (text and photos on archival quality materials) for the Hicks Boiler Works building prepared by the PAL project team for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. The Department of Transportation relocation of Interstate Route 95 project was found to have an adverse effect on historic properties that were determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.